I worked in the HR world for quite some time. As I made the transition to a more IT focused role I was surprised at how similar some of the conversations are. Both HR and IT are striving to deliver new services and more value to the business lines they serve faster and at lower…
An orphaned Active Directory group is a group with no owner. On the surface, that doesn’t seem that bad, email is still delivered, permissions are still applied. But there are some real dangers to the business if you allow Active Directory groups to go ownerless and the membership becomes static. You can almost guarantee inaccuracy…
Active Directory and Exchange offer a great tool for managing communication to distribution lists: message delivery restrictions. This concept is pretty easy to understand, if you have an Exchange distribution list that you want only certain people to be able to email, you include them in the message delivery restriction. Conversely, if you want certain…
We call them Dynasties Smart Groups are a great way of managing the membership of an individual group in a dynamic fashion. But what if you wanted to create a series of separate groups whose memberships are defined on some common criteria (for example, manager, department, location, and so on), and that criteria has some…
After 200 entries and a lot of work to make the bingo hopper actually hold all of the paper entry slips that we created, we have a winner for the free full conference pass for TechEd 2010 in New Orleans! We will contact the winner via phone and email today but in case the winner cannot…
We aren’t big on the pranks at Imanami but we had to do at least one so we stole a page from The Office and be-jello’d our CEO’s stapler. Be-jello’ing is sort of like bedazzling but with Jello instead of rhinestones. I hear it’s all the rage in Paris this season. One very serious prank…
